Sleeping Beauty
Synopsis
A ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with a libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipa, based on the story of the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault. This recording of a performance by the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR was made at the Kremlin Palace in 1971.
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